Gordon Barclay

Author

Dr Gordon Barclay FSA, FSA Scot, FRHistS worked as Principal Inspector and Head of Policy at government heritage agency Historic Scotland. He has published extensively on the history and surviving remains of the defence of Scotland, including ‘If Hitler comes’: Preparing for Invasion: Scotland 1940. His main research interests lie in the misuse of the past for political ends.

Dr Gordon Barclay FSA, FSA Scot, FRHistS worked as Principal Inspector and Head of Policy at government heritage agency Historic Scotland. He has published extensively on the history and surviving remains of the defence of Scotland, including ‘If Hitler comes’: Preparing for Invasion: Scotland 1940. His main research interests lie in the misuse of the past for political ends.

Books

  • The Battle for George Square 1919
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Oct 2025
    £25.00

    The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the...